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8 votes
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Non-binary teenager dies a day after alleged assault at Oklahoma school
66 votes -
American teachers are missing more school, and there are too few substitutes
46 votes -
How I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
19 votes -
The price is wrong: How error-riddled scores get in the way of promoting music of marginalized composers
12 votes -
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
22 votes -
Served: Opening a restaurant inside a prison
5 votes -
Citation cartels help some mathematicians—and their universities—climb the rankings
8 votes -
UBC student flies to school from Calgary (because Vancouver is that unaffordable to live in)
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Learning and studying things without taking notes
I'm curious if there's anybody here who's like this. Either doing it without writing things down, or doing it minimally. I don't know why but I find it very difficult to do, and it stops me from...
I'm curious if there's anybody here who's like this. Either doing it without writing things down, or doing it minimally. I don't know why but I find it very difficult to do, and it stops me from actually learning/studying. I feel like it slows me down, significantly. It also feels like a chore. I feel like part of this may be because I'm in information security? Like, there's a lot of reading and researching going on, then immediate practicing and applying. Even when I have to take tests. I just read and listen or whatever else and that's it. Maybe in other fields, taking notes is a big thing, or maybe it's just me. I also have other interests, but yet still, I simply can't bring myself to write things down. I just prefer to absorb everything, in whatever pace I like, sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's fast. If I ever decide that I'm going to take notes while learning/studying, I'd stare at my notebook/software for a very long time. I'd sit with one chapter/slide for quite awhile. At the same time, I truly admire people who take notes and write stuff. I do wish I was like them sometimes. Is anybody out here the same? Even though I really want to hear from people who are similar, everyone else can join the discussion too. What do you do? How do you do it? What is your preference? Do you think there's a "better" way to do things? Could taking notes be "superior" to the opposite?
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Research samples collected over decades at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet were destroyed when a freezer malfunctioned during the Christmas holidays
30 votes -
UK professor suffered discrimination due to anti-Zionist beliefs, tribunal rules
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Inventing the perfect US college applicant – For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait
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Recruited to play sports, and win a culture war
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How would you teach math differently to young kids if budget was not a concern?
It seems to me we teach kids math in a way that prioritizes mass teaching and resource management over the actual learning of mathematical concepts. We rely on paper and pencil, and maybe some...
It seems to me we teach kids math in a way that prioritizes mass teaching and resource management over the actual learning of mathematical concepts.
We rely on paper and pencil, and maybe some limited manipulatives like unit blocks, and there’s 1 teacher for every 15-30 kids or so.
What are some methods that might work better to establish a strong understanding of math if we were able to approach it differently?
Or what are some methods that have been proven to work in other settings and why are they able to be successful?
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Families find ways around Taliban restrictions on girls’ education
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‘America is under attack’: Inside the anti-D.E.I. crusade
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Specter of academic plagiarism has now reached the heart of Norwegian politics, toppling one government minister and leaving a second fighting for her political career
10 votes -
The misguided war on the SAT
30 votes -
Canada announces cap on international students for next two years
29 votes -
Why do some educators dislike teaching people who don't already know?
28 votes -
Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
12 votes -
Why this math professor objects to diversity statements
46 votes -
Citing safety, dozens of Jewish families are leaving Oakland public schools
37 votes -
Scientist cited [by Christopher Rufo to make allegations of plagiarism] in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists
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To fight absenteeism, US schools turn to private companies
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Choose Your Own Adventure - 45 years ago, one kids book series taught a generation how to make bad decisions
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OECD urges Denmark to address gender stereotypes in education and suggested introducing quotas to get more women in top management
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Bill Ackman and the crusade against free speech
16 votes -
Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way
12 votes -
Notes on the Ivory Coast
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I got my IELTS scores back and I need help
Overall band score 8. What's the next step? I am an Indian and wish to pursue a master's program in the US. Should I prepare for the GRE and apply for spring semester? Total newbie about all of...
Overall band score 8.
What's the next step? I am an Indian and wish to pursue a master's program in the US.
Should I prepare for the GRE and apply for spring semester? Total newbie about all of this university stuff.
Thanks in advance.
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Toxic posts on economist job website traced to users from elite universities
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Despite support from corporation, Harvard president Claudine Gay under fire over plagiarism allegations
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Where do you usually look for courses?
As my school project this year, I'm making a metasearch engine for courses (any type, online/offline, free/paid). I could just add the websites I know myself but school requires us to provide a...
As my school project this year, I'm making a metasearch engine for courses (any type, online/offline, free/paid). I could just add the websites I know myself but school requires us to provide a detailed explanation of how we did "market research", so I'm asking here.
What websites do you usually go to first to when you want to learn something? It should preferably be something which is not exclusive to IT, but those websites are fine as well if they're really good.
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What does the oligarch behind the ‘Ivy League antisemitism crisis’ actually want?
22 votes -
The myth of the unemployed US college grad
31 votes -
Why Indian universities are ditching English-only education
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The divided states of football: The changing face of America's favorite sport
8 votes -
AI can do your homework. Now what? We interviewed students and teachers on how schools should handle the rise of the chatbots.
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With one of the lowest rates of bullying in Europe, we speak to teachers, pupils and parents to find out how Denmark is managing to stamp out harassment in schools
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Apparently I'm autistic?
My son shares a lot of my traits, including being Gifted. He's in kindergarten now, and we were looking into getting him a IEP (individual education plan) because he's Gifted. In doing so though,...
My son shares a lot of my traits, including being Gifted. He's in kindergarten now, and we were looking into getting him a IEP (individual education plan) because he's Gifted.
In doing so though, someone brought up that it might result in an ASD diagnosis essentially - and they were right. Haven't had the formal test yet, but a lot of what I considered "idiosyncrises" in my son are also found in autistic individuals. Some of which I share. I have little doubt in the ultimate conclusion, which is that he's 2e (twice exceptional).
And it seems quite likely I am as well. It's gonna be a niche audience, but anyone in a similar boat? It feels weird looking back and (at 34) retroactively realizing why I do certain things the way I do.
Edit: I should add - it didn't really 'matter' to my development because I was Gifted. I can learn whatever, pretty darn fast. So I just taught myself social stuff, on purpose, when I was in high school and college. It takes a lot of effort on my part, but I can be "charasmatic". I ascribed the effort to my general tendency toward introversion, but it may have been, essentially, the mental cost of masking.
Edit2: oh man I even went out of my way to try and alter my personality towards more extroversion in college because it seemed more normal.
Edit3: and I taught myself to understand body language in high school, particularly to understand and help with reading girls I liked, and how they were reacting to various levels of flirtation.
Edit4:
My spatial sense is god level. My wife doesn't bother remembering where the car is, because I just know.My audition is similarly unrivaled, I hear things others don't, and my phonological loop is amazing - I can hold audio in my head for a time if I'm truly concentrating on something else.
My imagination is virtually non-existent, I'm nearly a complete aphantasia case - the best I can ever manage is a pulse of a 2d image, kinda.
I'm incredibly good at math, computer science, etc. I know more about science than... anyone else I've met.
I've never really felt like I didn't belong, though. I just learned how to be an effective communicator from books and videos. I almost feel like I have weaponized ASD.
65 votes -
The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood
39 votes -
How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
41 votes -
What would Sandra Day O’Connor have thought about affirmative action for men?
12 votes -
A 17th-century classic of Ethiopian philosophy might be a fake. Does it matter, or is that just how philosophy works?
14 votes -
The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
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Is a degree worth it?
29 votes -
Course evaluations are garbage science
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What does it mean to friend someone online?
Recently my daughter (third grade) has started learning to type at school. It's a Montessori program, so it's a pretty low tech environment overall, which I mention because I don't necessarily...
Recently my daughter (third grade) has started learning to type at school. It's a Montessori program, so it's a pretty low tech environment overall, which I mention because I don't necessarily expect them to have a nuanced view of technology issues.
One of the typing programs they use is nitrotype.com, which adds a competitive gameplay element. However, it also has mechanism to friend another player. Friends can only communicate with stock phrases, so there's not too much "Internet leakage" beyond being able to choose a username.
I set it up for my daughter on her Linux Chromebook (I whitelist things I want her to have and everything else is blocked at DNS). Seeing her interact with it the first time, I realized that she spends as much time "adding friends" as doing the typing.
On its face, this activity is pretty harmless. But I am worried about the patterns it might be creating for her. I'm worried about her uncritically engaging with the dopamine hit of getting a new friend. Or how it shapes her idea of how many friends she has or where idea of her self worth comes from. Or what she thinks friends are.
So after that long preamble, here are some questions:
- How would you explain "friends" in this context?
- Would you distinguish them from other kinds of friends, either real or virtual?
- Would you attach a moral component to the activity? E.g. that it is good/bad or helpful/harmful
- How would you frame it to the teacher? Not so much in terms of whether or not they should do it in the classroom, but what kinds of conversations should they be having about the friends experience?
- If I'm asking the wrong questions, what questions should I be asking instead?
I'm really interested in seeing the perspectives people have on this. My own ideas are a bit murky, but I will put them down as a comment.
37 votes